Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1905 — Damage to Typhoon Grows. [ARTICLE]

Damage to Typhoon Grows.

Manila, Oct. 4. —The estimated loss in the hemp growing districts from the ravages of the recent typhoon is $5,000,000 iu gold. The hemp in warehouses ready for shipment is also a total loss. The plantations are impaired to such an extent that it will take a year to get them in condition again. Reports now ''coming In from the south Indicate a greater loss of life and property than was first estimated. On Tieao island the beach is strewn with dead bodies, among them those of some Americans ia such a condition ns to be unrecognizable.